Ryan Adams Releases Archival Albums

Two unheard albums, fresh from the mastering plant

Ryan Adams has put out a lot of albums during his career, but he's also apparently cut a few that were never released. And in the wake of ORION, his vinyl-only metal album, Adams may have plans to issue some of these unheard archival albums.

As Rawkblog points out, Adams updated his Facebook page yesterday with news of two unreleased albums, one of which is a double LP with his old backing band the Cardinals. First off, Adams wrote, "Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, "III/IV" Double LP, (unreleased and in the vault since 2006) fresh from the mastering plant!" After that, he wrote, "oh yeah, p.s. the "Blackhole" LP (recorded over Christmas in 2005) is also back from the mastering plant. I f'n love this thing. It took 4 years to make it and to me it is basically Love Is Hell Part 3... lots of shimmery guitar love on this. Exciting times!!!"

Adams didn't specify any release plans for these albums, so no word on whether they might come out on his Pax Americana imprint, but he did post a few pictures of himself holding up the vinyl, as you can see above. Shiny!

And Adams is also at work on some solo music. Last week, he posted that he was working on some "soft mellow acoustic jams" after attending Ronnie James Dio's funeral, and now he's posting pictures of himself recording demos.